The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-13
SUCH is NEWSPAPER FAME.


What the Press Says of People Whom
the World Ought to Know.
Mr.. Bancroft keeps eight type writers
busy.
Miss Braddon is about to publish her
fiftieth novel.
The empress of Japan contemplates
visiting this country soon.
Gen Sheridan gets seasick as soon as
he sails the ocean main.
Justice Miller is now the Oldest occu-
pant of the supreme court bench.
John Albertson, of Staked Plains, Tex.
the other day killed prairie de-; --ihls.o mad
three good eyes.
Col. Merriam, commandant at Fort
Laramie, is in Europe, trying to introduce
his improved knapsack in the European
armies.
Elk Empress Eugene has applied to the
city government of Naples for permission
to enter the hospital as a nurse, and care
for the soldiers wounded at Massowah.
Miss Annie Thomas, of Billings, Mon,
is the busiest woman in that busy terri
tory. She conducts 5000 acre ranch,
looks after valuable timber property, and
has an interest in two paying mines near
Butte City.
The czar's eldest son, who has entered
upon his twentieth year, has a tenor
voice of rare beauty and great compass.
For some time past his musical studies
have been interrupted owing to illness,
but they have been recently resumed.
There is a farmer Iamed Bill living
near Saybrook, Conn. This of itself is
not a remarkable circumstance, but the
fact that his full baptismal name is Kan
sas Nebraska Bill is worthy of notice. He
is called Nebby for short.
DR.. George w. Bull, young New
York surgeon who has been prosecuting
his studies in the laboratory of an emf
nent oculist in Paris, has invented an in
strument by which the length or limit of
vision can be instantly determined.
There is very wonderful old lady at
Maidstone, Eng, who has been known
since girlhood as the Fair Maid of Kent "
She Is 103 years old and is said to retain
slight traces of her former marvellous
beauty.
Through the generosity of Jay Gould
the Mount Vernon estate, where the body
of Washington lies entombed, has been
enlarged by the addition of a tract of
thirty-three and half acres on the north
ern side, near the old Washington man
sion. The acquisition of this tract was
much needed to protect the property from
encroachment.
Cadet Skunk, of Pennsylvania, who has
been graduated at the head of his class at
West Point, is a grandson of former
| governor of the Keystone state. Governor
| Skunk was self made man. He was
| obliged to go to work at 10 years of age,
but managed to ''pick up'' sufficient edu-
| cation to become a school teacher at 10.
| He taught school for nine years. He was
| twice elected governor of Pennsylvania.
| The explorer, Henry NJ Stanley, is said
| to have acquired by purchase of the native
| chiefs several of the most commanding
| sites and large tracts of the richest terri
| tory in Africa, which he intends to hold
| by title, trusting to time to make it re-
munerative. He took the precaution to
| have white witnesses to all his transac-
| tons, which were verified by written in
| struments. The consideration was, OF
course, comparatively trifing.
John Boyle O'Reilly has beautiful
| A plaster head and bust, of life size
done by Mr.. John Donoghue, the Bos
| ton sculptor, and sent to New York
| for perpetuation in bronze, has been ex.
hibited to favored few within day OF
| two past. 1t is like her, for it has life
likeness marked in every line. The
model has Greek face, eyes almost with
speech in them, lips parted, hair drawn
back and loosely knotted behind.
Charles Alden, of Randolph, Mass,
once one of the richest inventors in New
England, committed suicide to escape the
| pangs of poverty. For one patent alone
that for the evaporation of apples, he re
ceived the sum of 100000. In former
| years he was a member of the board OF
| New York aldermen, and was looked
upon as one3 of the most promising real
estate dealers in the metropolis. Unfor.
tunate speculations swept all his posses
1 sions away.
| Gems. Sherman and Sheridan expressed
| a wish while at West Point recently t
have their portraits placed beside that OF
| Grant in Grant Hall. Mr.. Childs, who
presented West Point with the portrait Of
Grant, told Sherman and Sheridan that
he would gladly add their pictures to his
gift, and added that they were at liberty
to choose their own artists. The portraits
of the two generals are to be of the same
| size as that of Gen. Grant.